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DIED. EDWARD MULHARE, 74, Irish-born actor who made a career playing astringent Englishmen; of lung cancer; in Van Nuys, Calif. Mulhare followed in Rex Harrison's footsteps, playing Professor Henry Higgins on Broadway and the equally irascible Captain Gregg in TV's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir...
...Harvard Glacier got its name in 1899 when the Harriman family--which later included W. Averell Harriman, undersecretary of state under President Lyndon B. Johnson--took a vacation in southern Alaska. They were accompanied by Harvard minerology instructor Charles Palache; John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club; an Amherst College professor; and two U.S. Geological Survey employees...
...Harvard Glacier got its name in 1899 when the Harriman family--which later included W. Averell Harriman, undersecretary of state under President Lyndon B. Johnson--took a vacation in southern Alaska. They were accompanied by Harvard minerology instructor Charles Palache; John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club; an Amherst College professor; and two U.S. Geological Survey employees...
...cost us our national parks. How long will it be after the 200 parks and monuments close before they are sold to private investors? Americans should stand up for their public lands and for the right to enjoy them. The value of these lands was encapsulated by John Muir in Our National Parks when he wrote, ''Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, overcivilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers...
DIED. JEAN MUIR, 66, fashion designer; of breast cancer; in London. Though Muir first made a mark in the early '60s, her mastery of starkly simple yet always elegant designs kept her on the cutting edge for three decades. Her practical credo: "When designing clothes, you must remember that you are covering a body that moves." Her specialty: the "little black dress...